Every two years, something extraordinary sweeps across the Basque Country. Day and night, without pause, a wooden baton passes from hand to hand across more than two thousand kilometres of […]
Zarautz
Between Sea and Stone | Part 4: Modern Identity Between Sea and Stone · A Four-Part Series Modern Identity & the Wound of No Foundation Surf culture, great food, fierce […]
The City Named for a Saint Series· Part 4 of 4
Part 4: Beautiful Shell, Empty Center — The City Named for a Saint The City Named for a Saint · Series IV Part Four of Four · Donostia-San Sebastián Beautiful […]
The City Named for a Saint Series· Part 3 of 4
Part 3: Blood, Division, and the Long Shadow — The City Named for a Saint The City Named for a Saint · Series III Part Three of Four · Donostia-San […]
Sáenz de Oiza’s Buildings
Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza, 1950s–1990s Stream Three · The Basque Library · Entry 09 He said he was born in the Middle Ages. It was not precisely a metaphor. […]
Oteiza’s Sculpture
Jorge Oteiza, 1950s–1959 · documented in Quousque Tandem…!, 1963 Stream Three · The Basque Library · Entry 07 There is a phrase Oteiza used to describe what he was trying […]
The Witches’ Advocate
Gustav Henningsen, 1980 Stream Three · The Basque Library · Entry 06 The sentence that brought Alonso de Salazar Frías to the attention of historians was recovered from the archive […]
Unanumo: Del sentimiento trágico de la vida
Miguel de Unamuno, 1913 Stream Three · The Basque Library · Entry 05 There is a moment in Niebla — the novel Unamuno published in 1914, the year after Del […]
Bertsolaritza
The Living Tradition of Improvised Verse Stream Three · The Basque Library · Entry 04 This entry begins differently from the others. Every previous post in this library has opened […]
Elizen Arteko Biblia
The Basque Interconfessional Bible, 1994 Stream Three · The Basque Library · Entry 03 There is a sentence near the opening of the Gospel of John — Hasieran Hitza zen, […]